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Frontier AI labs should be required to contribute a share of their equity to a global trust that pays a dividend to every person on Earth

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Jeremy Bearer-Friend
Professor of Law at George Washington University; tax law scholar focused on AI and equity

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We propose a tax that would allow the public to own a share of AI itself, not just through future income tax liabilities or new excise taxes, but a proposed ownership structure that requires a one-time tax payment by generative AI firms in the form o... more Unverified source (2026)

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Vinod Khosla
Venture capitalist; Khosla Ventures founder

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AI will transform economies and need a rethink of capitalism & equity. Labor portion of economy (vs capital) will decline sharply. [...] Take 10% of every corporation and put it in a national pool for the people. Sharing the wealth of AI is a really,... more Unverified source (2026)

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Ro Khanna
U.S. Representative for California's 17th congressional district

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Our taxpayer dollars and philanthropic dollars funded the development of AI at Dartmouth, MIT, and at Stanford with ImageNet and with the Digital Library Project that helped give birth to Google. To whom much is given, at least, a little is expected.... more Unverified source (2026)

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Paul Nemitz
Visiting Professor of Law at the College of Europe; former Principal Advisor and Director at the European Commission

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A careful reading of this document in light of OpenAI's—and its close partner Microsoft's—actual lobbying record reveals a deep chasm between the company's public rhetoric and its political maneuvering in relation to democratic legislation. [...] The... more Unverified source (2026)

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Tom Steyer
Billionaire investor, climate activist, and 2026 California gubernatorial candidate; founder of Farallon Capital and NextGen America

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I refuse to let California's future be a boom for billionaires and a bust for everyone else. [...] The people need to own some of this upside so we can protect people from losing their jobs and make sure we don't get hollowed out by a technology that... more Unverified source (2026)

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Ioana Marinescu
Economist and Associate Professor at the University of Pennsylvania School of Social Policy & Practice

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[The] Digital Dividend [...] is a small universal cash benefit financed by a tax on the digital sector, and serves as a scalable pathway toward higher unconditional income support, should economy-wide job scarcity materialize. The Digital Dividend st... more Unverified source (2026)

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Mary Bogle
Principal Research Associate at the Urban Institute

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Policymakers could classify human knowledge itself as the capital AI utilizes and require AI companies to pay royalties into a trust that issues a universal dividend to human beings. [...] AI companies are training their models on the knowledge of bi... more Unverified source (2026)

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Alex Bores
New York State Assemblymember

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At its core, the AI Dividend is simple: if AI dramatically increases productivity and concentrates wealth, the American people have a stake in those gains. [...] It's a way to ensure that if AI transforms the economy, it strengthens the country, not ... more Unverified source (2026)

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Sam Altman
CEO at OpenAI

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A Public Wealth Fund that provides every citizen—including those not invested in financial markets—with a stake in AI-driven economic growth. A Public Wealth Fund is designed to ensure that people directly share in the upside of that growth. [...] [I... more Unverified source (2026)

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Anton Leicht
Visiting scholar at Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; researcher on the political economy of AI

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A public wealth fund or a robot tax are far heavier political lifts than simply regulating the industry a bit, and they are not just going to emerge as an organic alternative. On that read, this is comms work to provide cover for regulatory nihilism. Unverified source (2026)

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